Testimony to an old allegiance of Bangladesh with the people of Turkey lies on one of the busiest roads of Dhaka. Kemal Ataturk road in Banani pays homage to the respect we have had for the Turkish pe ...

With the Ganges on the West and the Karatoya River on the East, the Barendra region included the present Rangpur and Rajshahi divisions. Scattered with some of our oldest archaeological sites, this re ...

Christopher Columbus was out to discover a New World and ended up making all sorts of discoveries, including finding the refreshing pineapple on the shores of a Caribbean island. On his second voyage ...

As the ancient fortified city of Bhitargarh is excavated by archaeologists, locals join in to form a combined approach to help preserve their own heritage. The story starts with a Maharaja who built r ...

Last week we experienced the Sufi influence of coffee and how the Arabs were instrumental in popularizing this beverage. Around the 1400s when it made its trans-boundary travel to Mecca, Cairo and Ale ...

Kaldi was a simple herdsman living in Ethiopia around 850 CE(current era), who would call out to his goats by playing his flute before heading homeward. However, one day they did not arrive as usual s ...

A man born in Chittagong, Sharat Chandra Das was sent to Tibet as an envoy of the British empire in the latter part of the 1800s. It was highly restricted to travel freely so he snooped around the mou ...

Reema Islam works at Jovago, the global hotel booking platform. Her main interest lies in archaeological heritage conservation & working with communities that live around a heritage site. Reema raises awareness about Bangladeshi archaeogy through articles in the US magazine Archaeology & other foreign & national publications.